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The challenge: You're a single parent who has lost your house and job and you've got $1,000 to your name. Play the game Spent. (Alamy)By BARBARA BEDWAY During an ice storm last month that kept U.S ...
Spent (stylized SPENT) is an online game about poverty and homelessness.It was developed by advertising agency McKinney for their pro bono client Urban Ministries of Durham (UMD), a nonprofit organization in Durham, North Carolina that provides services to those in poverty. [1]
Miloon Kothari, a leading Indian expert on socio-economic development, remarked that the 2010 Commonwealth Games will create "a negative financial legacy for the country" and asked "when one in three Indians lives below the poverty line and 40% of the hungry live in India, when 46% of India's children and 55% of women are malnourished, does ...
Santa Paula Community Center in Tonalá, Jalisco, México. Known in its earlier years as "Holy Land Christian Mission," Children International was founded in 1936. [23] The organization distributed food baskets to widows and poor families, provided early childhood education [24] and operated a small medical clinic as well as a children’s home for orphans.
With the rising popularity of the Azkals, the Philippine National Men’s Football Team, football gained popularity in the Philippines.Roy Moore, a British national and graduate student, had previously done volunteer work in the country and saw this as an opportunity to form a team in Payatas as many of the kids were interested in learning to play.
Hygiene Bank UK estimates that there are 4.2 million adults in the UK in hygiene poverty. ... the opportunity to source "valuable products that the pupils could use" as a "game-changer for kids".
In the 1970s, when the boomers were our age, young workers had a 24 percent chance of falling below the poverty line. By the 1990s, that had risen to 37 percent. And the numbers only seem to be getting worse. From 1979 to 2014, the poverty rate among young workers with only a high school diploma more than tripled, to 22 percent.
In addition, Louisiana has the second-highest share of people ages 18 to 24 without a high school diploma, the third-highest youth poverty rate and the third-highest teen birth rate in the country.”